As Promised..............Gwen Crawling

As promised here is the video of Gwen crawling. Take notice of her pug-like breathing while she crawls and the lovely clicking noise that is her grinding her teeth. At the end of the video she claps, says "eyes" and "uh-oh". Enjoy!

Officially a Crawler................

We were told yesterday by Gwen's daycare that she is officially a crawler. She crawls all over the place. This morning she crawled straight for Kaiser. She LOVES pulling on his tail. The cats are constantly running from her. I am thinking we will need to baby proof this weekend. I am so happy that it is an actual crawl, not the army crawl. Her butt looks so cute!! We will capture her crawling on video and post it this weekend.

Gwen still has a cold. We thought she had pink eye, but luckily she didn't. We took her to the doctor on Monday and she weighed in at 18 lbs. What is weird is that 3 weeks ago at her 9 month appointment she weighed 22 lbs...........on the same scale. Mike weighed her yesterday and our home scale said 18 lbs. 4 lbs is a lot to lose in 3 weeks. She is eating fine, she is happy........maybe all the crawling is making her svelte.

Other than that I got over a sinus infection and Mike now has strep. It's like the never ending sickness here!!

Well I am off to go shopping. The movers lost all my winter clothes. As a slap in the face they lost the good stuff but not my sweats, socks, pajamas..........etc. I am not very happy!!

p.s. MY MANAGER APPROVED THE 4 DAY WORK WEEK!!! I start in January!!

So many firsts............

Gwen turned 10 months last week and she has had many firsts around the same time! She is still sleeping great at night and even takes 2 naps during the day. After a couple mishaps at daycare (smacked head and fat lip) things have settled down. She really loves her new daycare.

• She is finally crawling towards stuff she wants. She doesn't go too far yet, but she is starting to get it!
• She said "eye". She was poking me in the eye and I kept saying "eye, eye, eye". She repeated it numerous time. I am hoping "mama" will be coming soon, but whenever I say it she yells and/or laughs.
• With a little help from me (her foot was stuck), she pulled herself up on the ottoman.
• She has been trying so many new foods.........duck fat fries, tofu, pancakes, nectarines, plums, vanilla ice cream.......... This morning I had made her pancakes for the first time. She ate them just fine. Well I put some maple syrup on a piece and fed it to her. The look on her face was priceless. She started eating and then got the BIGGEST smile on her face. She loved it!!

Wish me luck. Tomorrow I go and ask my boss for a flexible work schedule where I work 4 days a week (10 hour days). That would give me Fridays to be "girls day"..........just Gwen and I.

Please see below post for pictures. More can be found in the Summer 2009 Album.

Summertime Fun!

I can't believe we are half-way through August already. The summer is winding down and soon enough Gwen will be 1. I just wanted to share pictures of Gwen enjoying her summer!

Wheel. Of. Fortune


Texting with Miss Jen


Lounging at the pool


First time in the pool